Negotiating three worlds: academia, nursing science, and tribal communities.
OBJECTIVE
The purpose of this article is to use a cross-cultural model to guide the exploration of common issues and the dynamic interrelationships surrounding entrée to tribal communities as experienced by four nursing research teams.


METHODS
Members of four research teams discuss the primary lessons learned about successful strategies and challenges encountered during their projects' early stages.


RESULTS
Understanding the cultural values of relationship and reciprocity is critical to the success of research projects conducted in Native American communities.


CONCLUSIONS
Conducting cross-cultural research involves complex negotiations among members of three entities: academia, nursing science, and tribal communities. The lessons learned in these four research projects may be instructive to investigators who have the opportunity to conduct research with tribal communities.
Holkup
Patricia A
PA
Montana State University, Bozeman, MT, USA.
Rodehorst
T Kim
TK
Wilhelm
Susan L
SL
Kuntz
Sandra W
SW
Weinert
Clarann
C
Stepans
Mary Beth Flanders
MB
Salois
Emily Matt
EM
Hand Bull
Jacqueline Left
JL
Hill
Wade G
WG
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